What will the water bill be?

The water company divides the meter by the homes behind it, and past 30 m³ a home the whole month reprices. This works out the bill line by line and shows what crossing that line costs.

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Boundary	Bill at the boundary	Bill one unit over	The jump
10 → 11 m³Up to 10 m³ per home → Over 10 and up to 15 m³ per home	EGP 42.00	EGP 50.00	+EGP 8.00
15 → 16 m³Over 10 and up to 15 m³ per home → Over 15 and up to 20 m³ per home	EGP 71.00	EGP 81.00	+EGP 10.00
20 → 21 m³Over 15 and up to 20 m³ per home → Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home	EGP 110.00	EGP 121.00	+EGP 11.00
30 → 31 m³Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home → More than 30 m³ per home	EGP 199.00	EGP 297.00	+EGP 98.00

Work out your own bill

Type what your meter recorded for the month. Nothing you type here is saved or sent anywhere.

Water used last month

Cubic metres — the current meter reading minus the previous one

Homes on the meter

How many flats share this meter. The company divides the reading by this number to choose the band, then charges each home — so a shared block meter can put everyone in a higher band than any one flat would reach alone.

Is the property connected to the sewer?

Where the price jumps

2 m³ to go before you leave Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home.

Using 1 m³ more than that costs an extra EGP 98.00 — not for that one unit, but because the whole month is repriced. EGP 199.00 → EGP 297.00

EGP 181.00

Total

This works out in your browser. It is an estimate, not your bill.

Your band

Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home

Your bill, line by line

Charge	Amount
Water used10 m³ × EGP 2.00 + 5 m³ × EGP 2.95 + 5 m³ × EGP 4.00 + 8 m³ × EGP 4.75	EGP 92.75
Sewerage8 m³ × EGP 2.00 + 4 m³ × EGP 2.95 + 4 m³ × EGP 4.00 + 6.4 m³ × EGP 4.75Charged on 0.8 of the water that went in — the company's own assumption of how much comes back out — at the same band and the same rates.	EGP 74.20
Sustainability and customer serviceA flat amount per home per month, picked by the band. A meter read at zero pays EGP 10.	EGP 12.00
Regulatory agency services («مقابل خدمات الجهاز التنظيمي»)	EGP 0.28
VAT (14%)The company's calculator applies VAT to the sustainability and customer-service line only — not to the water and not to the sewerage.	EGP 1.68
Subtotal	EGP 180.91
Rounding	EGP 0.09
Total	EGP 181.00

The published ladder

The operator’s own table. A band is chosen by your consumption; the rates inside it are then applied from zero.

Up to 10 m³ per home

Priced from zero	Rate
0–10 m³	EGP 2.00 per m³

Over 10 and up to 15 m³ per home

Priced from zero	Rate
0–10 m³	EGP 2.00 per m³
10–15 m³	EGP 2.95 per m³

Over 15 and up to 20 m³ per home

Priced from zero	Rate
0–10 m³	EGP 2.00 per m³
10–15 m³	EGP 2.95 per m³
15–20 m³	EGP 4.00 per m³

Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home

Priced from zero	Rate
0–10 m³	EGP 2.00 per m³
10–15 m³	EGP 2.95 per m³
15–20 m³	EGP 4.00 per m³
20–30 m³	EGP 4.75 per m³

More than 30 m³ per home

Every cubic metre of the month is charged at EGP 5, including the first 30. This is the step: 30 m³ costs EGP 199 and 31 m³ costs EGP 297.

What makes up the bill

Charge	How it is worked out
Water used	The band’s rates, applied to every m³ from zeroper home on the meter
Sewerageonly when it applies	The band’s rates, applied to 80% of every m³ from zeroper home on the meterCharged on 0.8 of the water that went in — the company's own assumption of how much comes back out — at the same band and the same rates.
Sustainability and customer service	A fixed amount, chosen by your bandper home on the meterUp to 10 m³ per home: EGP 5.00 · Over 10 and up to 15 m³ per home: EGP 7.00 · Over 15 and up to 20 m³ per home: EGP 9.00 · Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home: EGP 12.00 · More than 30 m³ per home: EGP 15.00A flat amount per home per month, picked by the band. A meter read at zero pays EGP 10.
Regulatory agency services («مقابل خدمات الجهاز التنظيمي»)	EGP 0.01 per m³on the whole meter
VAT (14%)	14% of: Sustainability and customer serviceThe company's calculator applies VAT to the sustainability and customer-service line only — not to the water and not to the sewerage.

The finished bill is rounded up to a whole pound («جبر كسر الجنيه»), exactly as the company's own calculator does.

What will the water bill be?

About these tools

The whole ladder

Every boundary, and what crossing it costs

Work out your own bill

Your bill, line by line

The published ladder

Up to 10 m³ per home

Over 10 and up to 15 m³ per home

Over 15 and up to 20 m³ per home

Over 20 and up to 30 m³ per home

More than 30 m³ per home

What makes up the bill

What the operator states alongside the table

The official pages